A stunning rural landscape, dotted with huge eroded monolith rocks forming ideal habitat for the Wild Leopards. We choose a camp where the owner has grown up in the area, and understands the delicate balance between protecting the leopards and respecting the livelihoods of the local Rabari tribals.
It was a cold winter evening in the Lake District, and I was spending a few months with my parents before setting off on a ‘round the world’ trip in February 1997. After dinner we settled down around the TV in their cosey living room and found a wildlife documentary to watch together. I still remember vividly, a tiger walking out of the morning mist with a huge, ruined fort in the background and that was the first time I had heard about Ranthambore national park. One day later I changed by around the world ticket to start from Delhi (not Kathmandu) and that moment changed my life forever.
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